It's like the old adage from high school - if you're unsure about an answer, go with your original choice. I, on the other hand, am in full-blown tweak mode and probably will wind up doing more damage. Oh well.

This seems to me to be the most wide-open bracket that I can remember, and I feel like some frenetic addict anxiously awaiting tip-off.

Yeah, that's a tough one. I went with Illinois just because I hope that the beatings they took at the hands of Michigan toughened them up. That and they played Staee, Indiana and Wisc pretty tough in some losses.

Seriously, do not pick Pitt, and do not even think about a Final Four apperance. They have burned me so much in the past 5 years so I finally said frack it and picked Wichita to drop them in the 1st round.

I like north carolina over Kansas... paving the way for michigan to beat N.C.!

side note: I just filled out 5 brackets on sports.yahoo.com and picked all lower than five seeds to win: I had Memphis, Oklahoma, Butler, Arizona, and St. Mary's to win... Anybody else try any crazy brackets?

Also, I'm submitting a straight no-upset bracket with Louisville over Kansas. Did this in 2008, when everyone was going upset-crazy in their bracket selections (and no one saw Davidson coming anyway) and won one of my pools in a landslide.

For about two decades now, an "all-chalk" bracket usually gets near, but never actually enough, to win most pools. I'm sure there are outlier anecdotal examples like yours, but as a general matter, chalk won't talk.

That seems particularly true here this year. The #1's didn't have remarkably different seasons from the #4's; we have a #11 favored over a #6; etc. It's just nuts how unpredictable this is going to be.

So, good luck with that, but, it's probably not going to work -- particularly because IU can't seem to put 6 wins in a row no matter whom they play.

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However, with parity this year, I feel like everyone is a little upset-happy. Everyone thinks that there is no way that #1s can hit the Final Four together and therefore no one is picking them. Everyone is looking for the upset. I've seen more brackets write off Kansas and Gonzaga like they weren't close to being contenders than not.

I'm not saying this is the best strategy, but I feel a little bit more confident putting in one chalk bracket this year.

So.... you'll good trading in the one national championship, in exchange for TWENTY YEARS of basketball embarrassment, irrelevance and general depression?

Hmm. Umm... no.

Fisher, to me, is the posterboy for NCAA hypocricy. The NCAA slammed the program -- rightly so -- for "lack of institutional control." Well, who was the Institution? It was FISH. He was the head guy, he was the guy where all this was happening directly under his nose -- in his locker room, with his players taking trips on weekends, etc. So, if "the institution" was at fault, then Fisher has to be #1 guy at fault.

But, the NCAA doesn't want to go around punishing people -- that causes (eek!) lawsuits. Read: Tark the Shark. So, its easier to just punish the program (which wont fight back -- its a member institution), than to punish the actual do-badders.

Dude never got punished for causing all that pain we suffered. Championship or not, he's at fault.

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Just did the Wall Street Journal blind bracket and picked VCU to beat Michigan.

I also ended up with a final four made up of all the #1 seeds.

I do have some good news to report, however. My 9 year old daughter filled out her bracket last night...and she has both Michigan State and Ohio State losing in the round of 64. When I explained that there is almost no chance that either team will lose and that it would hurt her chances of winning the pool in which we participate, she said that she didn't care...and that she always roots against both teams. She's clearly being raised the right way. I'm filled with nachas!

The CBS Sports server has been down for the last hour, so I wasn't able to make any last minute changes. I'm not even sure my brackets got saved, to be honest. I was in the middle of tweaking some picks when the server crashed.

everyone have coming out of the South? Can someone assuage my fears re Florida - or convince me to put someone else there? Would love to go Michigan - but I just don't see them playing well that consistently to get to the Final Four...

In the three brackets that I have floating out there in space (one of them literally, as it was a spreadsheet), I didn't have Florida any farther than the Elite Eight. It was hard for me to envision that, once they had this opportunity to play teams from higher rated, more competitive conferences, that they would not meet someone better than they are. It was also difficult for me to reconcile their particular #3 seed and yet being closer to 30th (per StatSheet's numbers) in SOS despite being #9 in RPI. I just see a few potential stumbling blocks for Florida.

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